On 5/11/07, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 11:14:29PM +0530, satyaakam goswami wrote: > installed xen-unstable , and xend is running > > # xm list > Name ID Mem VCPUs State > Time(s) > Domain-0 0 0 4 r----- 985.9 > > > when i try to run virt-install i get the following error > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 630, in ? > main() > File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 489, in main > conn = libvirt.open(options.connect) > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 100, in open > if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpen() failed') > libvirt.libvirtError: virConnectOpen() failed What user did you run it as ? Does 'virsh list' work ? What Xen version, kernel version & architecture. Finally what libvirt version
i ran it as root user, i cheked out xen-unstable tree and built , i am trying it on RHEL 5.0 , AMD x86_64, SUN x2200 . virsh list gives the following errors #virsh list virsh: error: failed to connect to the hypervisor satya